About us

Brian Mathé – The distracted thinker

Where is Brian? Brian is in the kitchen! (French reference to English lessons…). He’s taking care of the dry sausage and wine! Epicurus would proud to see that, after three years of eating principally pasta and raw eggs, one of his spiritual sons has not lost any love of duck filet or stag terrine. Some think he is shy, he says he’s just an introvert. His adventure brothers say he thinks a little bit too much – at least not spontaneous enough. This being said, never forget that Brian is the only guy of the team to have dared dancing on Dawson City’s casino stage, driven by the joy of dancing with a French cancan dancer! On American TV, he was already mentioning he’s will to « meet the American girls » !

If life was a reel, travelling would be a good developing bath.

Education

Industrial engineeringing (INPT-ENSIACET)

Professional experiences

Since september 2013 : Author ofSolidream, director and producer of Solidream (film), speaker (schools, city counsels, associations and companies).

Morgan Monchaud – The confident dreamer

You can create the most beautiful masterpiece but if it doesn’t rest on anything, it just falls onto the ground! Morgan is the frame of Solidream. He’s the most pragmatic of the team, but he’s also the one that dreams the biggest. By the way, when he was 4, he was already looking for the Kuna Indians during the 7 years he travelled with his parents on a sailboat. Have a drink with him, he can already take you far away. But beware : he has enough strength to persuade you ton say « yes » when you think « no »… For instance, he’s the one who convinced the others that spending nights out at -20°C on the Altiplano or crossing the Amazon would be a good idea! In other words, he’s a crook : he diverted peaceful destinies of some of his friends towards his dreams. Maybe it’s the Camargue region that gave him the chracteristics of the local animal : the bull. It can be risky to take him by the horns. Neither a Briton nor a Turkish, he’s stubborn anyway. But things aren’t always what they seem : he’s a sensitive person and could have been named Harry because, just like the film, he’s « a friend like Harry! » The ones who met him know he’s altruistic.

We like to present ourselves as travelling craftsmen, little independent mens proud to be French. We like to work hard, we are generous in making efforts, even if we are not perfect. Every day, we want to create from aspirations, with passion.

Education

Industrial engineering (INP Grenoble)

Professional experiences

Since September 2013 : Author of Solidream, director and producer of Solidream (film), speaker (schools, city counsels, associations and companies).

Siphay Vera – The original optimistic

With such a first name, he can’t just be normal person… He was born in Amiens but spent a fair amount of his life in Souther France. He has both laotian and Chilean roots, it’s hard to imagine how his two beautiful green eyes landed in France. Soo enough, his mother takes him from city to city. His education makes him used to travelling around and can explain his relatively emotional unstability. What strikes you is his optimism : theonly way to hear him grumble is to put your hands in his equipment without asking first. Siphya is a little bit like the penguins in Antarctica : he needs his space, otherwise he bites! What motivates him is action, his positive spirit often moves the team forward. For instance, he will be the first to ask his route to a Chinese person… Sometimes, because he wants to understand people so much – wether they speak Russian or Arabic – that he interprates what they say anyway! He is curious and will not hesitate to talk to you in the street – and it works better if you are a beautiful girl! But he’s more in love with life than anything else. He’s always in to party and has a quite good sense of humour. He’s a rare and appreciated boy.

Education

Bachelor in Commercial Units Management

Professional experiences

Since September 2013 : Author of Solidream, director and producer of Solidream (film), speaker (schools, city counsels, associations and companies).

Since 2010 : Photographer for Solidream

2007-2008 : Ethnic jewelry shop manager.

2005-2006 : Comic books salesman.

4 Comments

Absolutely amazing adventure guys! I’m gutted I missed meeting you when you were in New Zealand. You stayed with my client and good friend Richard (I’m his massage therapist – you could’ve used a massage I bet!). He told me to have a look at your website. I’m about to start a very small (compared to yours) adventure to do Mount Kilimanjaro in September. I like the look of your website and your videos are AMAZING. I was hoping you might share some advice and tricks so I might be able to make my story look cool like yours. For example, the music you use on your videos… did you need to pay for it?

Hope you have a safe and fun journey through Asia and back up towards home. If you come back to New Zealand book in for a massage! All the best guys. Keep on keeping on. It’s great to see you doing something like this.

Ah we had such a good time with Richard and Val, great Kiwi people, so generous and cooking such a good food too ! It seems Richard will always be keen on using his body so we bet you must be a great help for him.

Nice adventure to Kilimandjaro, you plan to climb it to the top ? Thanks for your commentes on our videos, we spend long days working on them. It feels good for us when we have such comments.About the music, the legislation is not very clear : on Youtube, the artists of the songs normally get some money out of our videos (with advertisement on Youtube) so no we don’t pay for it, even though Youtube say we should. As long as we don’t sell anything they don’t bother you because that makes what Youtube is. On Vimeo I’m not sure.

please have Siphay call me at Morgan Stanley 410-229-8230 or at home 410-302-4468. I met him in Chile on my way home from Mt. Climbing and want him to speak at our country club: Baltimore Country Club (1898) and Maryland Club (oldest Private Men’s Club in USA. Plus to have have speak at University and he can stay at our home in Towson Maryland . Want to help get on BANFF FILM FESTIVAL
Thank You Bob Travers